Grade 3 Language

Description

Reading

Now that phonics and reading skills are pretty much mastered, it’s time for your child to focus on their comprehension skills. Using the right strategies to break down text, ask questions, make inferences and summarize are all concepts that students will focus on this year.

The ideal language arts curriculum for third grade will help your child address these and many more objectives, including but not limited to:

• Describe characters, identify the main idea and use supporting details.
• Use context clues to understand what a word means.
• Read and understand a variety of genres such as fiction, non-fiction, poetry, fables, etc.

Writing

With the basics down, students are now moving on to writing longer, more detailed copy. This year, students will continue to grow their vocabulary and use these new words and phrases to make their writing as clear and concise as possible. A 3rd grade language arts curriculum will also help students with the writing objectives listed below.

• The writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
• Write longer text in chronological order using transition words
• Write different types of text: opinion, informative, narrative, etc.

Grammar

Good writing isn’t possible without a solid understanding of grammar rules. This year, students will gain a deeper understanding of concepts that will help them communicate more effectively, both in writing and orally. Your language arts curriculum for third grade should teach your child how to:

• Use proper punctuation, capitalization, and noun and verb forms (singular/plural)
• Understand parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, etc.
• Know the different sentence types